Scenes of Clerical Life (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199552606 ISBN 13: 9780199552603

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2009

Synopsis

When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words of Saturday Review, as `the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer'. The three stories that make up the Scenes, `The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', `Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and `Janet's Repentance', intriguingly foreshadow George Eliot's later work. The first readers, including Dickens and Thackeray, were struck by the humorous irony, the truthfulness of the presentation of the lives of ordinary people, and the compassionate acceptance of human weakness which characterize Eliot's writing.

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Review:

These early stories show her efforts to write about unremarka ble people with an insight that is both accurate and compassionate. (Sunday Times)

It is an excellent edition for a student because, besides being so reasonably priced, it contains a most concise chronology of George Eliot and explanatory notes which have been researched with great thoroughness. (Hilda Gunn, The George Eliot Fellowship Review)

About the Author:

Thomas A. Noble is editor of the Clarendon edition of Scenes of Clerical Life

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199552606
• ISBN 13: 9780199552603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Noble Thomas A.